Beyond the Journey

What’s something you’d love to see in the future, but know you probably won’t live to witness?

Life, time, continues on, we simply walk into it, stay for a while and then head out when our time is done. Many fade away, some are remembered by those who walk in next.



Nonetheless, many of us spend considerable time in this world, we learn and experience a lot whether we choose to or not. We watch the world move forward, with its developments, acceptances and agreements and somewhere down the line we know when our work is done and what lays ahead for the future we may never see.



Almost a decade back, one of my friends mentioned that there is a certain percentage of the population that believes that the world will end with their lifetimes. This was the first time I realised that there were people who were afraid of all that they will never get to see after they are gone. It gave me a new perspective of thought and over time I realised, even though we are present in the world, we cannot possibly have enough time to see and experience everything. We can simply make the most of what we have and what we have is not much, in the measure of time.



I do have something that I want to remain in the life which will happen after. I always say I have been privileged to meet several such people who have defined the life and world for me in a broader sense, people who are common like me and many and yet I don’t want them forgotten. It’s not through their direct identity, but rather through their presence that I will sprinkle a little into the soul of everything I write. Maybe it will outlive me like I imagine, maybe it won’t, which I also imagine. I will just be happy and content to have tried. 

Written by Anuran Chatterji

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